Another letter calling on Blair to resign, eh?

Ah - no, it's the one I sent last year!

Malky: September 2005: "letter to Tony Blair"

"Fuck off Tony!" it seems they are all saying now. Well, I don't like to say i told you so - but maybe I do. I didn't support him for leader in 1994, never voted for him, think all the Blairism and third way stuff with mandelson et al was basically anti socialist (actually even cold war anti communist - the main similarity with thatcher and not a good one), but also not really that brilliantly thought out or executed.

In my view a cabbage would have won in 1997, it wasn't Blair's triumph, pretty much the whole thing is and always was emperor's clothes. A waste of time and energy which could have been spent doing more useful things in government.

But Afghanistan, Iraq, now Lebanon, next Iran, the bloody, stupid, "war on terror" - that was really stupid. Even in their own terms, bloody stupid. If for no other reason, these are probably millions why he should not be the leader of the Labour Party. What a shite legacy.

Oh well, looks like it's all over now:

"BBC News site - Last Updated: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 14:46 GMT 15:46 UK
Blair faces wave of resignations
Pressure grows on Tony Blair as seven government members quit over his refusal to name an exit date."

Bye bye tony. However long it takes, it's over.

I would support John McDonnell http://www.john4leader.org.uk/ and I hope he does well, whenever the actual leadership election is.

Obviously Gordon Brown will be the next leader. None of the Anyone But Gordon candidates have the stuffing (ie the votes) to win. Brown has been Tony's right hand man in New Labour, so I don't support him. But - and this only my speculation - after all he fronted up the cash when Tony decided to go mad - I really don't think we'd be in the Iraq mess Blair has created if Brown had been in charge. I just think he's too smart to have gone there. Whether he has the skill and will to extricate the world from this bloody mess, I do doubt.

Anyway, being rid of Blair will be a relief. The point at which Thatcher realised just how much everyone hated her was a queer moment. I think this is similar, if only in that regard.